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Devan Cole / CNN:
Judge says Trump administration's use of US military in Los Angeles violated federal law  —  A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated federal law by using the US military to help carry out law enforcement activities in and around Los Angeles this summer.
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Trump administration use of National Guard in L.A. violated law, judge rules
Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
Federal Judge Rules Trump Willfully Broke the Law With His LA Troop Deployment
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump can't use National Guard, military in California to enforce laws, Judge Breyer rules
Reuters:
US judge blocks Trump administration's use of troops in California
Jordan Fischer / WUSA:
Grand jury refuses charges against woman accused of threatening President Trump, attorney says  —  Nathalie Rose Jones, 49, of New York, was arrested in August for allegedly making repeated threats toward President Donald Trump online. … WASHINGTON — A grand jury has refused charges …
Discussion: The Post Millennial
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
D.C. grand jury declines to indict another defendant amid Trump's crime crackdown  —  Grand juries have declined to indict at least six separate times in recent weeks as part of President Donald Trump's federal policing in Washington.  —  WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury in Washington declined …
Farrah Tomazin / The Daily Beast:   Major New Blow to Pirro Over Woman in Alleged Trump Murder Threat
Michael Scherer / The Atlantic:
The Anti-Trump Strategy That's Actually Working  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  Days after Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to put an end to the Justice Department's revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, captains of the legal resistance gathered by Zoom.
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Politico:
The latest on Epstein, Trump's crime bill and shutdown talks  —  IN TODAY'S EDITION:  — Massie plans immediate action on Epstein  — Luna gives leaders new timeline on stock trading ban  — WH aides to help GOP sell megabill  —  Congress is back.
Politico:
House members ready action on Epstein files
Hilary Burns / The Boston Globe:
A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler's perspective.  —  The cornerstone of the Trump administration's justification for cracking down on Harvard University is that the Ivy League school has allegedly allowed antisemitism to fester on campus.
Discussion: New Republic
Associated Press:
Trump will announce Space Command is moving from Colorado to Alabama  —  President Donald Trump's administration will announce on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado, according to two people familiar with the announcement.
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New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Threat to Occupy Cities Gets Scarier in Vile Fox Hit  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 2 episode of the  —  Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network.
Discussion: ABC News
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Aaron Glantz / The Guardian:
Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice  —  Legal experts say charges against Afghanistan war veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II mark an escalation in the Trump administration's crackdown on first amendment rights  —  The arrest of a US army veteran …
Graham Linehan / The Glinner Update:
I just got arrested again  —  I arrived back in London to discover the UK is still a police state run by trans activists  —  Something odd happened before I even boarded the flight in Arizona.  When I handed over my passport at the gate, the official told me I didn't have a seat and had to be re-ticketed.
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James Fontanella-Khan / Financial Times:
US sliding towards 1930s-style autocracy, warns Ray Dalio  —  Billionaire hedge fund boss says other investors are too scared of Trump to speak out  —  Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump's America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics …
CNN:
Exclusive: Justice Amy Coney Barrett defends overturning Roe v. Wade and reveals Supreme Court dynamics in new book  —  Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in a new memoir defends her vote reversing a half century of national abortion rights, declaring that Roe v. Wade usurped the will of the American people and “came at a cost.”
Bill De Blasio / New York Daily News:
Why I am endorsing Zohran Mamdani  —  What is a New York City where working class people no longer can afford to live?  What kind of identity, what type of soul, would that place have?  —  Would it still glow with the restless energy with which we've always been defined by?  Or would it recede in its absence?
Paul Krugman:
The Bonfire of Trump's Vanities  —  A richness of embarrassments  —  Busy day yesterday, so all I have this morning is a brief follow-up on last week's post about the decision by an appeals court to uphold the Court of Trade's ruling that most of Trump's tariffs are illegal — which they clearly are.
New York Times:
How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image  —  Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI's chatbot to be “politically neutral.”  His actions say otherwise.  —  Elon Musk has said Grok, the A.I.-powered chatbot that his company developed, should be “politically neutral” and “maximally truth-seeking.”
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Nadler, Pillar of Democratic Party's Old Guard, Will Retire Next Year … Jerry Nadler intends to end a 34-year career in the House of Representatives at the conclusion of his current term next year.Clark Hodgin for The New York Times  —  Representative Jerrold Nadler …
Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Donald Trump To Make Televised Announcement at White House: What to Know  —  President Donald Trump is scheduled to make an unspecified announcement on Tuesday afternoon following days of rumors about his health.  —  The president will make “an announcement” from the Oval Office at 2 p.m. ET …
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one 👇  —  😷 Subscribe to PN 😷  —  Last week, Health and Human Services secretary and anti-vax crank Robert F. Kennedy extended his efforts …
Discussion: New York Magazine, RedState and MSNBC
New York Times:
After Court Defeat, Trump Warns of Economic Chaos From Loss of Tariffs  —  The president and his advisers have suggested they will fight a federal appeals court's ruling that found many of the administration's tariffs to be illegal.  —  President Trump spent the weekend decrying a court decision …
Rahm Emanuel / Wall Street Journal:
We Have Met the Enemy and He Isn't Us  —  Can Americans stop fighting each other long enough to appreciate the threat from China?  —  The latest illustration of the division and dysfunction in our politics—images of the National Guard occupying our nation's capital—has justifiably infuriated my fellow Democrats.
Konstantin Toropin / Associated Press:
Pentagon authorizes up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.
Discussion: Newsweek
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps  —  Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons  —  US immigration agents will have access to one of the world's …
Charles T. Munger Jr / New York Times:
Do Not Re-Gerrymander California  —  For the better part of two decades, California's elections have been freer and fairer because the state doesn't allow for the gerrymandering of political districts.  I like to think I am in large part responsible.  —  Working alongside former …
Evan Halper / Washington Post:
A red state community bet on carbon capture.  Trump is blocking it.  —  Amid fierce global competition to dominate the industry's future, the Trump administration puts U.S. companies in a bind.  —  The Trump administration's zeal to eviscerate incentives to reduce global warming has swept …
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
The Turmoil Inside MAHA Is About More Than Just Vaccines  —  Disparate factions are sparring over some of RFK Jr.'s biggest priorities; a top FDA scientist is hired, ousted, then hired again  —  WASHINGTON—Dr. Vinay Prasad seemed like a fitting choice by Robert F. Kennedy Jr …
Justin Weinberg / Daily Nous:
Philosophy Grad Student from China Deported upon Arrival in US (updated)  —  A 22-year-old student from China who had traveled from China to Texas to study philosophy at the University of Houston was detained upon arrival in the state, questioned, and deported back to China 36 hours later, according to the Associated Press.
Reuters:
Exclusive: US regulators cancel bank exams as Trump rollback gathers pace  —  U.S. regulators are pulling back on some bank exams and the use of confidential disciplinary notices, a sign lenders are already benefiting from a softer touch under President Donald Trump's administration, said more than half a dozen industry executives.
Discussion: IJR
 
 
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Death of Trump
Robert F. Kennedy Jr / Wall Street Journal:
We're Restoring Public Trust in the CDC
Discussion: MSNBC
Alex Guillén / Politico:
Appeals court sides with EPA in climate grant terminations fight
Polina Ivanova / Financial Times:
The Americans moving to wartime Russia for ‘traditional values’
Emily Herbert / Financial Times:
US stocks fall as bond sell-off spills into equities
Discussion: Associated Press
Paul Rosenzweig / The Atlantic:
State of Permanent Fake Emergency
Discussion: New York Times and Washington Post
 Earlier Items: 
Derek Thompson:
The US Population Could Shrink in 2025, For the First Time Ever
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
‘Do Something Radical!’ Joe Scarborough Calls on JB Pritzker to ‘Partner Up’ With Trump After Deadly Weekend in Chicago
Norman Ornstein / The Contrarian:
Democrats' shadow Cabinet should start impeachments now
Discussion: masslive.com
Greg Olear / PREVAIL:
Dying Words  —  Is the President really on death's door?  If so, why isn't the White House being honest about it?
Discussion: Semafor
Alexandra Petri / The Atlantic:
Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Trump's cash-grab faces meandering path to SCOTUS as Congress writhes
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs
 

 
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